Alex Hinton

Cambodia awaits Khmer Rouge jail chief verdict

Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court on Monday gives its verdict on the Khmer Rouge prison chief, in a step towards justice for the "Killing Fields" atrocities more than three decades ago.
 

Khmer Rouge defendant: US policy benefited regime

Former Khmer Rouge prison chief says US policy helped bring regime to power. The former chief of the Khmer Rouge's most notorious prison said his group would not have risen to power in the 1970s if it weren't for the policies of former U.S. President Richard Nixon and his top diplomat, Henry Kissinger.